The European Studies Alliance calendar comprises all events sponsored by its member centers: the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE), the Center for European Studies (CES), the Center for German and European Studies (CGES), and the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies (CIFS).

Spring 2007 ESA events are listed below.

Alternatively, for a more extensive calendar of Europe-related events on the UW-Madison campus, click to view events by month:

| September 2006 | October | November | December |
January 2007| February | March | April | May | June |

Links to other calendars:

• Calendar of the International Institute
  
  
• ESA Calendars from prior semesters:
       2006-2007: Fall '06
       2005-2006: Fall '05 | Spring/Summer '06
       2004-2005: Fall '04 | Spring/Summer '05
       2003-2004: Fall '03 | Spring '04 | Summer '04
       2002-2003: Fall '02 | Spring '03 | Summer '03
       2001-2002: Fall '01 | Spring '02 | Summer '02
  

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• 26 January
  Névine El-Nossery
  SUNY Plattsburgh
  "Hybridité textuelle dans la littérature maghrébine postcoloniale"
  4:00 p.m., French House, 633 N. Frances St.
  
  
• 27 January
  Film Series: "Parisian Labyrinths: The Films of Jacques Rivette"
  Céline and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 2 February
  Philippe Barbé
  "La Quête Postcoloniale des Origines: L'Androgyne dans le Désert" [The Postcolonial Quest for Origins: The Androgyn in the Desert]
  4:00 p.m., French House, 633 N. Frances St.
  
  
• 3 February
  Film Series: "Parisian Labyrinths: The Films of Jacques Rivette"
  Paris Belongs to Us (Paris nous appartient)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 5 February
  Karen Hagemann
  Professor of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  "A West-German Sonderweg? Women, Work and the 'Time Politics' of Child Care and Education"
  12:00 p.m., 8417 Social Sciences
  Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "Gender, Genre and Political Transformations in Germany and the Transatlantic World"
  
  
• 10 February
  Film Series: "Parisian Labyrinths: The Films of Jacques Rivette"
  The Nun (La religieuse)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 13 February
  Haknoh Kim
  EUCE Marshall-Monnet Scholar-in-Residence and Director, National Unification Research Institute, Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, Yeungnam University, Korea
  "Regional Innovation Policy of South Korea, Compared With, and Learning From the European Union"
  (Rescheduled to 24 April)
  
  
• 15 February
  Myra Marx Ferree
  Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for German and European Studies
  "German and American Models for Gender Equality in Law and Policy"
  12:00 p.m., Lubar Commons (7200 Law)
  
  
• 16 February
  K-12 Colloquium: "Dante's Inferno"
  
  
• 17 February.
  Film Series: "Parisian Labyrinths: The Films of Jacques Rivette"
  Duelle
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 19 February
  Claudia Koonz
  Department of History, Duke University
  "The Right to Remain Hidden: The Headscarf Wars in Germany, France, and England"
  12:05 p.m., 8417 Social Sciences
  Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "Gender, Genre and Political Transformations in Germany and the Transatlantic World"
  
  
• 24 February
  Film Series: "Parisian Labyrinths: The Films of Jacques Rivette"
  Nor'west (Noroît)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 27 February
  Elizabeth Covington
  Executive Director, European Studies Alliance
  "Migration in EU/US Contexts"
  7:00 p.m., Fond du Lac Public Library
  
  
• 28 February
  Alan Charlton
  Deputy British Ambassador to the United States
  "US/EU Co-operation on Global Challenges"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall
  
  
• 1 March
  Étienne Balibar
  Université de Paris-X Nanterre and University of California, Irvine
  Strangers as Enemies. Further Reflections on the Aporias of Transnational Citizenship
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham
  Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "War, Peace and the Emergence of the Idea of a United Europe, 1648-2003"
  
  
• 2 March
  Workshop: "Regulation and Governance of Healthcare: Alternative Practices, Theories and Visions"
  Fluno Center, 601 University Avenue
  
  
• 3 March
  Film Series: "Parisian Labyrinths: The Films of Jacques Rivette"
  Love on the Ground (L'amour par terre)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 5 March
  Workshop: "Social Europe and the Future of the Welfare State"
  12:00 - 4:30 p.m., 206 Ingraham
  
  
• 6 March
  Italian Day
  
  
• 8 March
  Volker Berghahn
  Department of History, Columbia University
  "American Foundation and the Cultural Cold Wars in Europe, 1945-1975"
  3:30 p.m., 5243 Mosse Humanities Building (Curti Lounge)
  Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "War, Peace and the Emergence of the Idea of a United Europe, 1648-2003"
  
  
• 8 March
  Tomislav Longinovic
  Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, UW-Madison
  "Alternate Visions: Telling the Truth After the End of Yugoslavia"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall
  
  
• 10 March
  Film Series: "Parisian Labyrinths: The Films of Jacques Rivette"
  The Story of Marie and Julien (Histoire de Marie et Julien)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 13 March
  Bart Testa
  Professor of Film Studies, University of Toronto
  "Fellini and the Italian Art Cinema"
  1:00 p.m., 290 Nutritional Sciences Building, 1415 Linden Drive
  
  
• 19-20 March
  Conference: "The Challenges of Citizenship and Literacy in a Global Society" (Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies [WCSS] and International Education [IEC])
  (Including a presentation by CES Outreach Coordinator Lara Kain:
  "Citizenship and Identity in the New Europe")
  Madison Marriott West Hotel
  
  
• 23-24 March
  German and Dutch Graduate Student Association Conference:
  "'Jenseits von Worten': Translation, Transfer, Transformation"
  Including the keynote lecture: "Translating Franz Kafka: One Way to Skin a Cat"
  by Michael Hofmann, University of Florida (Friday, 3:30 p.m., L150 Chazen Museum)
  
  
• 26 March
  K-12 Student Conference: Don Quixote in Wisconsin
  Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
  
  
• 27 March
  Ricardo Court
  Visiting Assistant Professor of History, UW-Madison
  "'Genoese, Therefore a Merchant': The Vocation of Trust in the Western Mediterranean"
  4:00 p.m., 7191 Helen C. White
  
  
• 28 March
  Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, including a videoconference with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's EU Center of Excellence and an innovation seminar
  4:00 p.m., The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
  
  
• 5 April
  Daniel Tröhler
  Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich, Pestalozzi Research Institute for the History of Education, Zürich Switzerland
  "Curriculum, Languages, and Mentalities or: What are the Contexts of Curriculum if Curriculum is a Text?"
  3:00 p.m., Room 468 Teacher Education Building
  
  
• 11 April
  Jan-Werner Müller
  Assistant Professor, Department of Politics at Princeton University
  "European Constitutional Patriotism? The Case Restated"
  12:00 p.m., 7200 Law School (Lubar Commons)
  
  
• 12 April
  María Luisa Siguan Boehmer
  University of Barcelona
  "The Spanish Civil War in Literature"
  3:30 p.m., 8417 Social Science
  Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "War, Peace and the Emergence of the Idea of a United Europe, 1648-2003"
  
  
• 12 April
  Jan Gross
  Professor of History, Princeton University
  "Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall
  
  
• 12-14 April
  39th Wisconsin Workshop: The Making of Masculinities in Modern Germany
  
  
• 12-15 April
  Wisconsin Film Festival,
  including the series
  Contemporary European Cinema
  
  
• 16 April
  August E. Røsnes
  Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
  "Planning Reforms in the Nordic Countries: From Social Democratic Visions to the Rule of Law"
  12:00 p.m., 208 Old Music Hall
  
  
• 16 April
  Workshop: "'War on Cancer' and Accountability for Outcomes: A Transatlantic Dialogue on How and Why of Success"
  1:30 - 6:00 p.m., Auditorium (Room 1309), Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Avenue
  
  
• 16 April
  First French-Italian Poetry Day, with
  Giorgio Luzzi, Mario Moroni, and Nicolas Pesquès
  Authors will read selections from their recent poems; English translations will be presented.
  3:30 to 5 p.m., French House, 633 North Frances St.
  
  
• 16 April
  Marek Skolil
  Czech Consul General (Chicago)
  "New or Old Europe? The Czech Republic in an Enlarged EU"
  7:00 p.m., The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
  
  
• 17 April
  Susan Robertson
  Professor of Sociology of Education, and Coordinator of the Centre for Globalisation Education and Societies, University of Bristol, UK
  "Stirring the Lions: Strategy and Tactic in the Global Higher Education Wars"
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
  
  
• 17 April
  Danielle Zay
  Professor of Educational Sciences, Université de Lille III, France
  "European Models for the Prevention of Social and School Exclusion"
  4:00 p.m., Red Gym, On Wisconsin Room
  
  
• 18 April
  David Coen
  School of Public Policy, University College London
  "Lobbying the EU"
  4:00 p.m., 8411 Social Science Building
  
  
• 19 April
  K-12 Workshop: "Teaching the Holocaust"
  
  
• 20 April
  Niels Brouwer
  ILS Graduate School of Education, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  "Globalizing Teacher Learning"
  12:00 p.m., Teacher Education Building, room 220
  
  
• 20-21 April
  Conference: "New Architecture of EU Governance"
  206 Ingraham
  
  
• 23 April
  Emanuela Lombardo
  Politics and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Pozuelo de Alarcón
  "Gender Mainstreaming: Theory and Practice in the European Context"
  12:00 p.m., 8417 Social Sciences
  
  
• 24 April
  Haknoh Kim
  EUCE Marshall-Monnet Scholar-in-Residence and Director, National Unification Research Institute, Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, Yeungnam University, Korea
  "Regional Innovation Policy of South Korea, Compared With, and Learning From the European Union"
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham
  Click here to download a related paper (pdf)
  
  
• 26 April
  Ruth Ben-Ghiat
  Professor of Italian Studies and History, New York University
  "Modernity and Masculinity in the Italian Colonial Cinema"
  4:00 p.m., Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
  
  
• 26-29 April
  Conference: "National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages"
  Madison Concourse Hotel
  
  
• 27 April
  Conference: "Transnational Advocacy Networks: Case Studies from Europe and the US"
  (Conference to be held at the University of Washington-Seattle)
  
  
• 30 April
  Hans Peter Peters
  Research Center Jülich (Germany), Program Group Humans-Environment-Technology
  "Public Communication about Global Climate Change in Germany: The Role of Science"
  4 p.m., Nafziger Conference Room, 5055 Vilas Hall
  
  
• 1 May
  Student Colloquium: "Dante's Inferno in Wisconsin "
  
  
• 2 May
  Hans Peter Peters
  Research Center Jülich (Germany), Program Group Humans-Environment-Technology
  "Culture and Technological Innovation: Sense-Making of Food Biotechnology in Germany and the U.S."
  12:00 p.m., LSC Library, 440 Henry Mall
  
  
• 3 May
  Eric Fassin
  Sociology, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
  "The Politics of Sex and the Sex of Politics in the French Presidential Campaign"
  12:00 p.m., 6191 Helen C. White
  
  
• 7 June
  Peter D. Jones
  University of Bristol and Visiting Scholar at the UW-Madison
  "Requisite Irony and the Knowledge Based Economy: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Drafting of Education Policy in the European Union"
  4:30 p.m., 336 Ingraham
  
  
• 19 June
  Workshop: "Innovative Environmental Governance and Regulation in the European Union: Any Lessons for US?"
  9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monona Terrace Conference Center, Madison
  Registration is required - see the website for more information
  
  
• 25-28 July
  Workshop: "New Governance, Regulation, and the Law"
  Berlin, Germany